ServiceLink AuctionReviews of servicelinkauction.com

hudsonandmarshall.com sucks and is unprofessional. Do not waste your time and or money with these clowns. First, the main number rang to someone's cell phone (voicemail) when I called it, which seemed odd for a "large Professional company". Second, the website auction software is low quality and looks and functions very cheap (which should have been my first clue that they're not a professional organization). Third, they bid on their own properties to drive the prices up "on behalf of the seller" - How back-door, shade tree, unprofessional is that? And lastly, their reserve prices are way over priced for multiple properties I bid on and did market analysis for. Needless to say, registering on that website and wasting a weeks worth of time trying to investigate properties there on auction was a total waste of time. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to come here and find these other crappy reviews first. Maybe my crappy experience can save the next person some headache. DO NOT be fooled by the low starting bid for a property - those guys are snakes and HUD should be ashamed of themselves for allowing HM to market their properties.

1st Hudson and Marshall called me about a property then tried to lie and say the last property I bid on was the wrong address this is the one that should have been listed then gave me a fake previous bidding price they claim I bid on the previous property. The Second lie I was told by Jose was that this property was occupied found out the owner passed away over a year ago property vacant but full of trash from floor tothe ceiling wholes in the ceiling mold everywhere complete gut. Then I get these pushy authoritative emails we need your wire ASAP and you have until 10:00 and I hadn’t even reviewed or signed the contract which is extremely fishy. So then I asked about the earnest money since the contract stated I wouldn’t receive a dime back upon signing if I disagreed or something went wrong where the contract had to be canceled I then sent an email to Traci W who deferred the email to Cris you right days went by never answered back. Called no answer left voicemails no return call, the I speak with an Aldo Rude as a pot belly pig authoritative with a nasty attitude who told me I had til 10:00 am on a Saturday to get the wire in now I still haven’t signed the contract then he hung up in my face. Now if you wanna do professional business please go elsewhere these people and company are crooks and I plan to post this review on every website I find plus the BBB. Terrible experience! Then charged me a $2500 earnest money fee plus $2,000 in closing cost fees rip off please don’t buy here go elsewhere

Hudson and Marshall is a very shady organization. I've participated in 4 auctions and was the highest bidder for "real people" and still the house is back on the auction block again. I realize H&M bids against you on the Seller's behalf but is that a real auction when no one ever wins?! I successfully bid on a home on Hubzu and finished a cash auction and within days was into a 20 day closing. I wanted to educate myself regarding how HM system works so I looked up the number for the gentleman that emailed me saying I wasn't the highest bidder, because the Seller was. I called him, Rayan Romano, in their Texas office. The clerical staff answering the phone said he wouldn't be the person to handle it Aldo Gonzales at ext. 1222 would be. Surprise, he was in a meeting. Then I asked to speak with Ray again. Surprise, he was in a meeting too! Left messages to no avail. Another issue, I don't run into with Hubzu, is that H&M doesn't require you to prove you have funds when joining an auction for cash. Without proof of funds you could have an auction run up with someone hoping to get money, not actually having the money to be in the game. This company is nothing but some cubicle drones playing sales games and wasting the time of serious investors to no avail. Any REO seller going through this auction house is wasting their time and losing prospective purchasers.

To the rep from Hudson and Marshall: The things you named as "standard auction practice" might indeed be common practice in auctions. That doesn't mean the practices make any real sense, or make for a good consumer experience, which is what the reviewers here are rating you on. Ex: Why start an auction at a price below what is acceptable to the seller, i.e. below the reserve? Be honest about it and start it at the reserve price! Doing otherwise makes a customer feel duped. Any talk of this " helping to make a deal" is just nonsense, and smart consumers see it as an attempt to create excitement over an illusion.

Don't waste your time with this SCAM!!! They have a system that automatically bids against you to their reserve price. I've tried to make offers and it is worthless. Their system is rigged and when you bid within the last two minutes the time goes UP!!!! Look elsewhere...

Really-somebody on here gave this company 5 stars? I don't believe it for a minute (that these are true reviews from customers) It took us 4 months to close on a small house that had already been on the foreclosure market for close to a year. I could write pages about our experiences with them-but worst customer relations we have ever encountered in over 25 years of buying real estate. I would never recommend them to anybody.

It went very smoothly! Thanks!

I completed my purchase process because the deal was too good to pass up, but they are shady so pay close attention and read every word of their documents. The people I talked to generally seemed helpful in attitude but my primary contact misled me on more than one occasion and I only realized it because his story changed on each call. Also they charged their commission based on the amount the seller asked for the property instead of the price I paid, I argued it but they wrote the contract to show the asking price as the purchase price and then showed the difference between that and my actual buying price as a refund... Shady.